时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是琼燕要问的:电灯泡。

QY: Happy Friday, Donny! 你今天晚上有什么计划吗?

Donny: Hmm, not yet. What do you have in mind?

QY: Let's go salsa!! 我今晚要跟两个朋友去跳salsa, 可他们俩是一对,我可真不想夹在中间,当大电灯泡--very bright light bulb!

Donny: I see. You don't want to be the third wheel.

QY: The third wheel?

Donny: Yep! Wheel is spelled w-h-e-e-l. The third wheel, 第三个轮子, it's a very colloquial 1 way of saying a third person joining a couple in a social context 2.

QY: 没错!我就是不想当 the third wheel!

Donny: Exactly, you wouldn't want to bother any love birds, right?

QY: Wait! Love birds? 爱的鸟儿?

Donny:Yep! In English, we often use the word love birds to refer to a couple who are openly affectionate, especially in public. 就是大庭广众之下卿卿我我。你不想打扰这对love birds吧?

QY: 可不是吗!不过这两个人很配!They are a great match!

Donny: Oh that's nice! You can also say, they are a match made in heaven.

QY: A match made in heaven? 那不就是中文里说的天生一对嘛!

Donny: There you go! Since you don't want to be the third wheel, I will go with you! But first, let's see what you learned 3 today!

QY: 第一:电灯泡叫做:the third wheel;

第二,如胶似漆的情侣 ,可以说 love birds;

第三,"天生一对"是,a match made in heaven.



1 colloquial
adj.口语的,会话的
  • It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
  • They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。
2 context
n.背景,环境,上下文,语境
  • You can always tell the meaning of a word from its context.你常可以从上下文中猜出词义来。
  • This sentence does not seem to connect with the context.这个句子似乎与上下文脱节。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
all-wheel drive vehicles
alternating current single phase induction motor
Anabaseine
arewe
baden
battlin'
bell-ringers
blue crabs
bufei ejiao decoction
bulk matter
Bungu
bw-server
Cala Millor
calibrated club propeller
cancer nadaensis
cement throwing jet
chain extending reaction
cheat-sheet
common-mode rejection factor
demountable rim
diacetyl acetic acid
differential interference contrast microscope
dismiss an appeal
double conductor (twin conductor)
economic form
ennoy
equi-
equilibrium in pure strategies
Euro rate
f.o.r.
ferrousimetry
fusioneer
gear type pump
get out of sth
glyceric aldehydes
grease additive
guangzou
Hakkoz
hellenicas
hexagonal socket head plug
hopkinsons
horizontal grinding disc
hunting cartridges
Ilovlinskiy Rayon
jeannot
karkadann
kennedy aronhold the orem
Kobresia lacustris
Kozlu
L.R.C.P.
liquefying organisms
littoral accumulation
lower coal measures
M.F.H.
marginant
mccreary
moschetto
munchausen syndrome by proxy
Nxogodimo
on the trail
open up
ophthalmoscopy
overthe-top
Parents Anonymous
pedagogical knowledge
pinch runner
pipecurium bromide
pityriasis steatoides
Plasmodium cynomolgi
platinized charcoal
poison sumac
potentiometric method
reflected in
restick
sailed
shack pin
shuttle-avionics integration laboratories
signcontrol flip-flop
skater skank
socio-economic status
SOSB
split-second chronograph
statical heeling moment
stompies
stretcher party
supercompilation
surface discontinuity
tacky
Tangjung
timbo
trademarks
triacontanol
trubow
turf soil
ultrasonic cleaning tank
under the strain
universal default
venae hemiazygos accessoria
vibration monitor
whedier
whigmaleeries